Tandem Accident

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[MoziIIa4000]

Holy fucking shit cock.

[adz2906]

i bet that guy is glad he paid to get his tandem filmed. Thanks camera man!

[nocalsteve]

The cameraman's a dumbass, grab the pilot chute not the bridle.

[TheeGoldenOreo]

@adz2906 didnt look like the camera man fixed anything... tandem pulled reserve chute

[keff1340]

great effort from the cameraman

[Freeourmind]

@mattryan13 took the words right from my mouth. I hope this guy lost his TI job. Or at lest forced to take time off.

[carnivalwrestler]

@LozzaTurbo exactly what I was thinking.

[LozzaTurbo]

It's called a hook knife. Carry it, use it. Well done none the less in the efforts.

[MiqhtyChris]

my mouth was in africa when i seen this :O

[CLICk000000000000]

life savour

[wolf1010]

That's a wingman right there. Couldn't imagine collecting my shit together for even 2 seconds and doing that while falling from the sky o.O

[highskyeagle]

The camera man could not free them, what happened next? did they land ok?

[mattryan13]

How about going for the reserve handle a lot sooner as you fucked it up and got the drogue wrapped around your leg after you tried a "cool" exit for the camera and failed horribly. These are innocent passengers lives people, wake up. Exit stable, throw drogue into clean air and take the boring ride down. It's a job.

[DarklyBishop]

awesome how the cameraman just dives to help them! great job

[ridlas0784]

REFUND



[MagicMalky]

@andr01d1 i've been hit by a drogue before. hard as a rock. i avoid them at all costs these days

[MagicMalky]

@Cricket202 i looked into it after watching this vid and i have been told repeatedly that you can get through a bridle with a hook knife. i now carry one

[Cricket202]

@squrelbate waooo are we watching the same video?? camera man didn't LEAVE he stayed in the game until the Tandem master deployed... granted camera man had very little results if any.. if I were a Tandem master.. I would want this Camera man with me... he did the best he could seeing there was a situation.. the camera man tried what he could do, to help out... a tandem master has his hands full with 175lbs of dead weight strapped to the front and 45 lbs of gear strapped on your back...

[Cricket202]

I also would have started by taking the Shoes off each jumper... most likely that would have let the line slide off the foot.

[Cricket202]

@luiznano2007 Not BS.. very real situation. the "little CHUTE" is tighted to the main chute but on a tandem... it is a 2 part deployment.. first releasing that smaller Drouge chute... to maintain a constant belly to earth body position, and maintaining a slower fall rate... then at deployment altitude the main canopy is released.

[Cricket202]

@MagicMalky maybe not.. but I bet I could slash the Drouge chute up enough to callapse it.. so there is no drag.. letting them re-route it off of their legs, and less chance to hang up in the reserve.... got nothing else to do with the rest of your life... may as well try to save your ass for the next 2 mins.

[Cricket202]

@andr01d1 yes, as a skydiving Camera man with over 1100 jumps myself (never having saw this happen in real life) I would have tried to grab the Drouge chute.. by grabbing in my hands... which would have made the line have NO tenstion.. and gave it a few seconds to see if they could get UN-tangled...after a short time of messing with that.. out would have came my JACK the RIPPER hook-knife, cutting the drouge away, so the reserve would have a clear path to come out.

[jazzthieve]

@andr01d1 I'm a skydiver but not a tandem instructor. I'm not sure if that would help. You see, the drogue is there to stabelize the fall and also to slow it down. Without a drogue a tandem can reach speeds of 200mph instead of about 120 mph with drogue. Also if you try to fly above a tandem to catch the drogue you "fall" on them because of the absence of relative wind.

[sophiethesmurf]

D:

[makeartnotwar1]

What was the cameraman thinking.... Probably "CUT, that's a wrap"... 

[andr01d1]

@squrelbate Not a sky diver myself, but if I were cameraman - i'd go up to the drogue chute and collapse it to decrease the pull. Would it help? Any pro skydivers out there care to comment?

[magic1swizerland]

u are an hero :D